Re: Unterminated speaker cable

[Bill Taylor <bill-taylor@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello John,

>> Ick, banana plugs are so ghetto for in wall use. I would
>> replace them with some
>> nice speakon plugs, which I believe also meet the loonie low
>> voltage requrements
>> which you have to have the crappy plastic binding posts to do
>> otherwise.

JR> do you mean the look of them? if you do, it doesn't really matter as
JR> they are inside a cupboard anyway.

JR> or do you mean the audio quality? is there anything wrong with
banana
JR> plugs? they were just the first outlets I saw (from LetsAutomate).

Banana plugs are perfectly adequate for speaker wiring. If it comes to
aesthetics, the speakon is just as hideous as banana plugs and it's
much bigger.

>> I would put a plug on a cable coming out of the wall. You run
>> the risk of
>> someone hooking the other end up and having 2 amps hooked to
>> 1 speaker and
>> toasting the both of them, or of the unterminated cable
>> ending up shorting,
>> making your amp die too..

JR> sorry, do you mean put a plug on the currently unterminated end at
node
JR> zero? I was just going to wrap the ends of the cable in insulating
tape.
JR> as things stand, there is no chance anyone else would hook anything
up
JR> to the cables.

As long as you make sure that your cables can't short out or come into
contact with anything they shouldn't they don't need to be terminated.

Bill